What do you use to juice limes, lemons, and oranges?

[dafox]

What do you use to juice limes, lemons, and oranges?

A citrus juicer, manual hand juicer, squeezer, press? Do you have multiple sizes of the hand juicers? Which brands are good? Anything to look for? Thanks!

 

[LostHighway]

At least for lemons and limes I primarily use the Bellemain squeezer. Supposedly the Chef n'Fresh squeezers will extract more juice but since they are primarily plastic (the Bellemain is all metal) including the gear mechanism the operative question is "for how long?" If I was regularly trying to extract juice in larger volumes I would probably spring for one of the electric reamer style juicers which aren't much more expensive but they do take up more storage space as yet another single-use small appliance relative to the squeezers

 

[M1k3]

At work a Breville citrus press with the press removed. At home a cheapo handheld presser or just squeeze by hand, depending on volume.

 

[YumYumSauce]

In a pinch, 2 forks. For volume Id use one of those electric ones.

 

[Michi]

I use these two juicers from Chef'N, the green one for lemons and limes, and the orange one for oranges. (The green and yellow version of this are identical, except for the colour.) They work extremely well.

 

[Furminati]

Fork and a fine mesh strainer

 

[esoo]

used to use a fork, but switched to a wooden reamer - just gets out more juice. but this is for low volume home use. I'd want something a faster if I had to do a lot of juicing.

 

[RonB]

oops!

 

[ian]

At home, this is my reamer. Stick it in and twist.

 

[Bodine]

electric for me, I have Satsuma, Lime, Lemon, and Grapefruit trees in the yard.

 

[ExistentialHero]

At home, this is my reamer. Stick it in and twist.

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As a person who chronically bites their nails and cuticles, I am *triggered*. Ouch.

 

[ian]

Try it. Your nails may acquire extra flavor.

 

[Paraffin]

If it's just one or two lemons or limes, I use a small handheld porcelain reamer. Quick and easy to clean.

For mass quantity of oranges or tangerines for juice, I bought a Hamilton Beach 932 commercial stand squeezer. It's pricey, a bit more trouble to set up and clean, and you need space to store it. But I like how it works, and I like that it's not electric. This thing will last forever. And you get some good arm exercise too!

 

[panda]

bellemain x2

 

[WildBoar]

Can't believe I'm the only one here that squeezes them between my pecs, and filters out the seeds and pulp with the dirty wife-beater t-shirt I am wearing at the time. Not even Panda? I feel truly alone right now...

 

[panda]

i filter through bamboo sticks

 

[BillHanna]

Can't believe I'm the only one here that squeezes them between my pecs, and filters out the seeds and pulp with the dirty wife-beater t-shirt I am wearing at the time. Not even Panda? I feel truly alone right now...

It's kinda hard to get hGH right now. I'm reduced to using my biceps, while looking in the mirror.

 

[gregfisk]

I just put the lemons between my legs and squeeze.

 

[panda]

I just put the lemons between my legs and squeeze.

citrus fish sauce

 

[boomchakabowwow]

i buy mine in that fake lemon squeeze bottle

 

[dafox]

i buy mine in that fake lemon squeeze bottle

Boo!

 

[dafox]

I use these two juicers from Chef'N, the green one for lemons and limes, and the orange one for oranges. (The green and yellow version of this are identical, except for the colour.) They work extremely well.
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Michi picked the ATK favorite

 

[gregfisk]

I use this little guy that looks like a little robot . It’s works okay but doesn’t open up far enough for oranges.

 

[Michi]

I use this little guy that looks like a little robot .

Very cool-looking machine!

 

[gregfisk]

Very cool-looking machine!

It does a good job at getting all the juice out and it’s easy to clean. I just wish it opened up a bit farther because a large lemon is a tight fit.

 

[Michi]

Michi picked the ATK favorite

Ah, I had no idea! IIRC, I bought the Chef'N because it had decent reviews on Amazon.

I like mine a lot. It gets all the juice out very quickly and almost effortlessly, and it cleans up in seconds.

 

[gregfisk]

Ah, I had no idea! IIRC, I bought the Chef'N because it had decent reviews on Amazon.

I like mine a lot. It gets all the juice out very quickly and almost effortlessly, and it cleans up in seconds.

I just watched the video posted here, it looks like a nice tool. I had the original and like the video it didn’t hold up. I do like mine a lot, it just needs to be a little bigger.

 

[applepieforbreakfast]

Wooden hand reamer and a strainer.
I think the reamer is from OXO?

Easier than a hand press and I feel like I get more juice.

 

[dafox]

Wooden hand reamer and a strainer.
I think the reamer is from OXO?

Easier than a hand press and I feel like I get more juice.

I do like the simplicity of this method, is it messy, work ok with oranges?

 

[boomchakabowwow]

Boo!

I was joking. I squeeze juice into my hands to strain seeds. My line tree dies produce seedless juicy things. Easy to juice.